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Hi there, the weather pattern so far this Autumn has been fairly wet but not as dramatic as last year (which had numerous flood events). As we head towards Winter we're noticing more southerlies so this winter should have more snow and more cold days, especially in the South Island. Seasonal forecasts are often wrong so we tend to look for small trends that may ring true and the uptick in southerlies indicates this winter might have a bit more 'winter weather' in it than previous years. As for wetter, it's appearing wetter than usual in most regions but hard to know how the next 4 months will go as NZ is too small to lock that stuff in. We're certainly seeing a trend of more wet weather in the west (due to many of those southerly wind flows actually tilting more south west).CheersPhilip Duncan

Looks like a few showers on Saturday morning clearing then expect a mix of sun and cloud. Winds breezy from the southwest. Sunday sees sunny spells and the odd shower, plenty of dry spells too, winds breezy from the west or southwest.

Hi Team,
The temperatures for this time of year seem much milder than normal.
I idea when it might drop and get colder? Its not good for growing winter vegetables and we still have insect pressures.
Cheers

Where ever you are feel free to type that location into our search box on the home page and you'll then see a 10 day outlook with high's for each of those days, that should give you a good indication of where temperatures will sit for the upcoming future :)

Hi there,
I’ve noticed that some places next week will be seeing some wind and rain... if Auckland going to get much o that?
Will it be anything like the storm we had back in April where people lost power?

Hi there. First, what a great weather site! Vastly superior to one which I won't name.
A while ago I saw that the Woodville forecast was from Papatawa, where I live and it was consistently accurate. It's now from somewhere in Palmy and not as accurate.
Was there some reason for the shift?
It's not a complaint, I'm just curious.
Ken

Hey there, thanks for the very positive and supporitve feedback Ken! :) The earlier shift was when we migrated from Wunderground (a network that is being shut down gradually) to The Weather Company. We've had a few issues with local weather stations. Sadly NIWA and Metservice can take tax funding, have public weather stations then stop us from using that data due to their own commercial focus. Minister Woods is currently investigating these issues. We are trying to fine tune the private network of stations which has FAR more than the public system but about 15% of these stations aren't reliable and we're working to pick those out.

We're also working on upgrades to all observations, including new technology which can work out current weather without using one specific weather station (A new IBM product we are trialling internally). We hope to make a few upgrades over the coming 12 months to improve local details.

Kind regards and thanks for the info, it's very helpful to us.CheersPhilip Duncan

Hi there, at this stage the day may be fairly dry but rain could arrive at night. May also be a few showers on Friday PM. Due to the chaos in the weather pattern next week the hourly forecasts we have for next Friday will be some of the most helpful data to you, especially the % of rain.

Hi and thank you very much for your question. 99% of the time Phil and the rest of us at WeatherWatch don't loosely use the word 'stormy' and this indicates a rougher than usual ride for some people over the next week. Auckland, however, is on the high pressure side of the weather so the strong winds won't be so frequent but may occur. For more detailed Auckland forecasts please see the hourly wind speeds in our detailed Auckland forecasts. However we're going to be fine tuning which areas have the strongest winds in the week ahead most likely this weekend in a news update - the chaotic pattern means we need more time than usual to lock it in. The nature of crazy Autumn weather!CheersWW Weekend Team

I have been checking out the temperatures for Palmerston North the past few days and have noticed that the current temperature is always way out. It is showing 33c at 6:39 pm Wednesday. From Terrace End station.
Just thought I'd let you know. Thanks for a great service.

Cheers for letting us know and thank you for the kind compliment. We are soon making changes to our weather observations. The most local may not actually always be the most accurate so we're finding that sweet middle ground between local and most accurate. Will be sorted some time in winter. Thanks for letting us know - and sorry for letting you down in this area, it's tough NZ is the only country in the entire western world to not have true open weather data even though we all collectively tax fund it for both NIWA and MetService who won't freely share it back with all New Zealanders. But we're working hard to find an immediate to fix this now thanks to IBM/private sector - meanwhile Minister Megan Woods is also investigating why MetService and NIWA are so commercially aggressive with tax funded data and blocking public commercial access to it. So that's a positive step for positive change - and catchng up with the rest of the developed world.

I live in Auckland, the videos that you have on here make the weather look very dramatic... I like to know if this week into the weekend will there be any storms like there was back last month with the multiple power cuts etc? Is the weather going to be like that?

Based on probabilities of two events happening so close to each other I would say most likely not like the storm in April. No severe rain looking likely for Auckland either overall but sometimes isolated downpours from the likes of thunderstorms could bring a brief period of severe rain to isolated areas. The weather isn't exactly black and white at times, answers are often a bit grey unfortunately.

That question could have many answers, but yes in general it seems to have been warmer so far this month then it was last year at this time. But many in the South Island will certainly be thinking it's a cold day today.

Hi
We are taking the Northern Explorer from Auckland to Wellington on Saturday. Sounds like a lot of the North Island is going to have heavy rain.
Is all of the North Island expecting rain Saturday? we are wondering if we are going to be able to enjoy the scenery ? Thanks

Hi there, sounds like a great day planned and at least you'll be on the railway tracks and not having to worry about bad drivers holding you up! There is a fair bit of rain around but it's not solid rain all the way from Auckland to Wellington (it's mostly the upper part of the North Island). So we hope you get a good mix of dry areas and higher level clouds for good views. In fact more than half of your trip may well be dry (wettest in Auckland and Waikato). All the best and we hope you get plenty of great photo ops!

Even though we are only 6 odd weeks from winter solstice, temp's here in NW Akl are still around 19/20 every day, overnight lows 14 - 17deg, which is still pretty summer like. Noticeable is high humidity, each year its getting higher, and tropical deluges with any northerly system. Beginning to really hate a northerly now! Problem is none of the little bugs/sandflies/midges/fruitflies are being killed off due to constant humid conditions.. Fruit trees have all blossomed again after harvest - Climate change!!!

Enjoy it. Sounds lovely. Oh, and 'climate change' has been around since dirt was new. It's called Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn, with occasional variances. Nothing is as perfect as you would like. Winter will be here soon. Enjoy the Summer stuff while you can...and be grateful.

Jello WW Team
Just to let you know for the past week, there has not been any information in the 'NOW' section of the daily weather report. Does this require a server reboot maybe. Otherwise, everything else is A-OK.
Thank you heaps for otherwise spot on weather reports.
☺ &

Hey there, thanks for letting us know about this bug! What location is it trying to pull data from (ie, where are you). We do have issues with our Observations network at times and we're about 90% through the process of shifting to a new more reliable system, but we can still make fixes the current old Wunderground network (which we still currently display).

Hello WW Team
I am in Dunedin. The 'NOW" information was pulled from a source on Maori Hill above the CBD, now it says "a Dunedin city..."
I hope that helps.
You're welcome. You're forecasts are a huge help in getting to Uni.
:) :) :)